Le Survivant
Handsome copy.

First edition of this important and very rare magazine, complete with 4 issues in 3 volumes.
Complete collection of this luxurious Surrealist magazine, edited and funded by Lise Deharme and characterized by its emphasis on photography. Covers illustrated by Man Ray, illustrations in black.
Contributions by Salvador Dali, Hans Arp, Dora Maar, Oscar Dominguez, Brassaï, Lee Miller, Jacques Lacan, James Joyce, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Ilarie Voronca, Nathalie Barney, Benjamin Fondane, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Alejo Carpentier, Eugène Jolas, Lise Hirtz [Lise Deharme], Raymond Queneau, Claude Sernet, Roger Vitrac, Robert Desnos, Jean Follain, Léon-Paul Fargue, Pierre...
Complete autograph manuscript, dated and signed, of this piece for choirs and pianos, bearing autograph additions, deletions and corrections by Jacques Benoist-Méchin to both the staves and the words of this work set to the early poems of Jules Supervielle.
The whole is housed in a board folder, with covers hand-lettered by the author. Blank folder soiled, with rubbing and tears.
Enclosed are three further documents relating to Jacques Benoist-Méchin: the contract assigning to the music publisher B. Roudanez the rights to his musical work for voice and piano based on poems by Jules Romains, and two letters addressed to him, with their envelopes.
Very rare complete collection of Rivages, a periodical "of Mediterranean culture" with only two issues ever published in December 1938 and February-March 1939. Exceedingly scarce subscription leaflet bound at the beginning of the first issue. Only five copies recorded in WorldCat (BnF, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, NYU).
Bradel binding in full beige cloth, smooth spine, green shagreen title label, covers and spines preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by Albert Camus, Jules Supervielle, Emmanuel Roblès, Jean Tardieu, Gabriel Audisio, Federico García Lorca, Antonio Machado, Eugenio Montale...